Privacy Act Systems of Records

Privacy Act Systems of Records

The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) requires each Federal agency to publish a notice in the Federal Register of each system of records that it maintains. A system of records is any grouping of information about an individual under the control of a Federal agency from which it retrieves information by the name, Social Security number, or some other personal identifier, including number or symbol assigned to an individual.

The SBA currently maintains 39 Privacy Act systems of records. All of the records notifications are published in the Federal Register and are available online at the GPO Access website: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/